An observation

[Regan Heath]

On Thu, 03 May 2012 15:31:25 +0100, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  
wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:07:44PM +0200, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> >
>> >Not that I'm advocating Mutt, but I do recommend taking the time to
>> >learn to use a threading mail/news reader. It will help you keep up
>> >with very high traffic mailing lists/forums, and not just the D
>> >forums.  (D's forums are relatively tame, comparatively speaking.
>> >I've been on mailing lists where traffic is measured in units of
>> >hundreds per day. And I used to be subscribed to several of them.
>> >Never had a problem keeping up.  Just delete tree whenever it's
>> >tl;dr. :-))
>> >
>>
>> Does the D newsgroup have broken threading in mutt? In my client
>> threading breaks often because some answers starts new thread etc.
>> makes the hole thing useless.
>
> To be honest, I don't know. I suspect there's some sort of
> incompatibility (people tell me that my replies are always broken, but I
> don't see it, and I do notice some people's replies being out of place).
> It doesn't happen often enough to be troublesome, though. A subthread
> may break into two or three, but you can still mass-delete them easily
> if you're not interested in that particular topic.

I use the built-in reader for Opera Web Browser and it has correctly  
threaded your reply.  I see replies out of place a lot too, threads broken  
into pieces and occasionally a large-ish number of replies all listed at  
the top level.  I just bash 'm' to mark the thread read and move on.

R

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